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        • Jack Slade
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      • The Overland Stage: 6 – Junction Station to Latham
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        • Fletcher Family
      • The Overland Stage: 11 – Pass Creek to Bridger Station
      • The Overland Stage: 12 – Bridger Pass to Duck Lake
      • The Overland Stage: 13 – Duck Lake to LaClede
      • The Overland Stage: 14 – LaClede to Almond
      • The Overland Stage: 15 – Almond to Rock Springs
      • The Overland Stage: 16 – Rock Springs to Fort Bridger
      • The Overland Stage: 17 – Fort Bridger to Weber Station

I find I don’t wish to explore new lands, but to explore again those I have already passed through, trying to see what I’d missed in the first hectic rush … Gerard Van der Leun

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Daily Archives: March 17, 2025

Time Flies

The New American Digest Posted on March 17, 2025 by JeanMarch 23, 2025

re-posted from March 5, 2011

hello,
Where have you been?
so much time passed
again.
since then life has changed
in ways, yet, somehow
stayed the same.
Everyone is older
rarely wiser from what's seen.
history repeats,
mankind weeps
and looks away.

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Not That He Had A Choice

The New American Digest Posted on March 17, 2025 by DTMarch 17, 2025

Schumer approved the "continuing resolution" the other day. Nothing more than kick the can a bit further down the road but the DNC was pissed because it didn't include funding for the study of transgender penguins in the Arctic and other such necessary Federal programs.

Seems the Dems are more pissed at Schumer than Trump this week; this may finally be the break-up of the DNC that's been coming.

Schumer didn't have a choice though. Much as I feel he's guilty of crimes worthy of public execution, he didn't dare bow to the wishes of the other loonies - if he had allowed the government to shut down last Friday, Trump would have had more evidence of other parts of the government to cut.

Now we all know the only parts of the government that shut down during a shut down are those parts that benefit the citizens.

Government owes you money? Oh, sorry, that office is closed.
You owe the government money? Funny - that part isn't closed.

Still waiting for arrests and convictions though ... underlings don't count so I won't hold my breath.

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St Patrick’s Day

The New American Digest Posted on March 17, 2025 by DTMarch 12, 2025

Even if Ulster-Scots

"Amazing Grace" and "Scotland The Brave" are over-done ...

Makes one want to go out and tweak some Sassunach bahookie, eh?

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Rules

Gerard Van der Leun
12/26/45 - 1/27/23


Gerard's Last Post
(posthumous): Feb 4, 2023
"So Long. See You All a Little Further Down the Road"

When my body won’t hold me anymore
And it finally lets me free
Where will I go?
Will the trade winds take me south through Georgia grain?
Or tropical rain?
Or snow from the heavens?
Will I join with the ocean blue?
Or run into a savior true?
And shake hands laughing
And walk through the night, straight to the light
Holding the love I’ve known in my life
And no hard feelings

Avett Brothers - No Hard Feelings

The following was posted along with the announcement of Gerard's passing.
Leonard Cohen - Going Home

For a 2005 interview with Gerard


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Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man,
play a song for me
I'm not sleepy
and there ain't no place I'm goin' to

Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man,
play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning,
I'll come followin' you

Take me for a trip upon
your magic swirling ship
All my senses have been stripped
And my hands can't feel to grip
And my toes too numb to step
Wait only for my boot heels to be wanderin'

I'm ready to go anywhere,
I'm ready for to fade
Unto my own parade
Cast your dancing spell my way
I promise to go under it


Men who saw night coming down about them could somehow act as if they stood at the edge of dawn.


From Gerard's site. The picture always caught my eye.

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